>
>Martin Heidegger thought that the true test of a great mind was to hold
>one single thought in mind, for a whole day. But then he was weird.
>
There's something to that. Most people never have a single thought in mind their whole lives.
Russell said that, while writing the Principia Mathematica with Whitehead, about three seconds of hard thinking a day would exhaust him.
jks
>In message <87ite75bew.fsf at lackawana.kippona.com>, news at kippona.com
>writes
> >Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes:
> >
> >> Steve Perry wrote:
> >>
> >> >the fitz observation you cite is, appropriately enough, from 'the
>crack-up.'
> >>
> >> Anyone have the exact wording?
> >>
> >> Doug
> >
> >"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
> >opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the
> >ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see
> >that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them
> >otherwise."
> >
> > -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
> > The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson
> >
> >Chris
>
>--
>James Heartfield
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